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Thanks very much much for your?reply and for all your very good advice. The last bit about the bar and drinking water before and during bedtime made complete sense to me and should hopefully work to keep me pain free along with my allopurinal.
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After an horrendous throbbing pain through out the morning and a little sleep (due to lack of sleep last night) the pain in my left foot seems to be subsiding and i can now walk with a slimp limp and obviously a lot of pain!
What next though!? I can't get to see my specialist till next Wednesday and my GP said yesterday to start the allopurinal as soon as the gout goes away. Now i remember when i 1st started the allopurinal my specialist told me to take with 2 Colchicine a day with the allopurinal for the 1st 2 weeks?so i think I'm going to do that and start the allopurinal as soon as my recent attack has finished. Does this sound about right to you Keith?
Just wondering as my gout came back almost straight away after stopping the allopurinal?does this mean my 300mg dosage was just about right or should i be taking more to reduce my uric acid levels further?
My 1st reading after my worst attack in my right foot put me just over the accepted level and my specialist said the real reading could be higher but because I'd just had a big attack it was showing lower levels.
My thinking is, correct me if i'm wrong,if i were to take a higher dosage of allpurinal i could get my levels down to a low level and after time missing a few days here or there would not be too risky?
The theory behind that is to get my levels as low as possible and then when i hit the big 40 have a big diet/lifestyle change and i might not need the allopurinal!? Here's hoping any way!
By the way Keith I'm glad to hear I'm your hero and yes i promise to never let it run out again!!
